"I need a partner." Jess had said with a bit of a whine in her voice as she pulled on my hand.
Laying prone on the couch, my head on my favorite pillow, a bag of chips beside me and a football game on TV, I was settled in for an afternoon of pure couch potato syndrome. "Have you called Jane?" I asked as I tried to lightly pry my hand from hers.
"Yes, I have called her and Diane, Jen, Lisa, and Marie." They are all busy. She said and continued to tug on my hand, which was obviously not going to escape her grip without an all out war. "You can watch football anytime and I really need some practice going into the tournament this weekend." She said and yanked hard this time. "Pleeeease?"
Taking a page from the "Poor pitiful me" book of pleading, I tried a new tact. "Jess, you know I am not any real competition for you. I can't imagine that you gain anything by playing me and frankly I'm not sure my fragile male ego is up to the beatings you put on me. It's embarrassing." I protested.
"I can understand how you feel about the beatings. If someone regularly beat me like a rented mule, I would not want much more of it either." She said with a wicked smile. "But I will have you know that practicing with you is better than playing against the wall." She chuckled.
"Oh, thanks, that really makes me feel better. And besides, this is a good game and the 49'ers are up on top." I said with the look of one who has been ultimately insulted.
"I will make it up to you, I promise. Just play me a couple sets and I will be forever I your debt." Jess pleaded.
"Or, until we get home, which ever comes first." I said with a tone that clearly said I was not buying, which by her reaction I could tell she was now the insulted party.
"What?" Jess's face went blank with feigned horror. "I keep my promises!"
"Well, lets face it your promises of undying gratitude are not exactly fulfilled." I continued, never taking my eyes off of the game.
"Yes they are! " She said with command in her voice.
"No they're not." I returned calmly.
"Since when?" she hurled at me like a gauntlet.
"Well, since you asked...last week when you wanted me to wash your car, before that it was sending that package to your folks, and before that it was cleaning the house for friends who were coming for dinner. Promises given, goods delivered, payment not made. And that is within the last month. Would you like me to continue? I could..." I asked sweetly.
"No...hmmmm, I never realized I was not keeping my promises of payment. I am really sorry. I promise it will never happen again." She said with fluttering eyelashes. "Now that we have fixed that little problem, be a nice husband and come play with me." She said with a schoolgirl look and pouting lips. "I promise this time will be different. I really do."
"OK" I said in resignation. "Let me hit the record button on the VCR so I can watch the game when I get home. Let's go hit some balls." I finally caved in.
"Yippee! You're the best husband in the world!" She screamed, gave me a big smile and headed for the bedroom to change. "Get dressed and let's get going." She said as I slid off the couch aware that I was about to get slaughtered once again by my wife in tennis.
I put on my old gym shorts and a tee shirt while she put on one of her fashion making tennis outfits. I must admit she is rather cute and sexy in them regardless of how expense they are.
"Lucky me!" I exclaimed once we got to the tennis courts at the middle school where she liked to practice on the hard courts. The best news about these courts was that after school was out, no one ventured here. It was always a ghost town. At least no one was going to see me get cremated.
"Why's that?" Jess retorted as she stretched against the net pole.
"There is no one here to witness my manly demise at the hands of such a petite woman." I returned.
"I am not petite." Jess gushed and blushed.
"OK, by a slender woman." I said with a shrug. "I guess you cannot call someone with tits as big as yours petite, huh?"
"JON!" she yelled with an "I can't believe you just said that" look. "I am tall, and I am not frail. That is what I meant. And I guess it is true that my breasts are a bit big for petite." She said with a giggle and a jiggle as she shook her shoulders to ripple her tits.
"See, I was right again, that is twice in one day." I said.
"Nearly a miracle Jon...nearly a miracle." Jess cooed, rolled her eyes and headed for her side of the court.
As expected she pounded me in the first set 6-0. I did get off a few good shots, but she was able to return most of them, which made her smile. She was having a good time and so was I, even though I would never admit it.
We both walked over to the bench to get a drink and wipe the sweat off of our faces. "That was a good set, and a wonderful practice. Lets' go another and then we can call it a day." She asked in a statement kind of way.
"OK, I did get in a few good shots, huh? Maybe this time I will win a game or two." I said trying not to get overly excited by the prospect.
"I'll tell you what, why don't we make a little wager on the first game? If I win, I get whatever I want and if you win you get what you want." She said and winked.
"Hmmmm. Let me think about that...OK!" I said and felt a twinge of motion in my crotch as my little head was thinking way faster than my big one.
We switched sides and began the first game of the new set in earnest. It was obvious we both wanted to win it. After we had tied at deuce for the third time, Jess got the ad point and smiled. "You're goin' down, bubba." She said with a sly smile.
"No, you are...in more ways than one." I shot back with a grin of equal meaning.
I won the point and we were back at deuce. "Told ya!" I yelled over to her. And I won the next point also, getting the ad point. I was going to win!
"TIME OUT!" Jess yelled. "I really need a drink before we go to deuce several more times." And she headed to the bench where the water was.